Time

I think there is a bend in time that appears when you are in the country. There is this other dimension that you step into where time either goes by extremely fast... or it doesn't move.

That is what I've experienced so far in this month that we have been here. Yes- we have now been in Wyoming for a month... see, crazy, it's gone by so fast!! 

So....in this last month what has changed?? My body has become accustomed to waking on it's own, not to the sound of a screeching alarm or the need to be somewhere at an exact time. Time itself has become more relative since coming up here. When living in the city I always needed to know what time it was...I had to catch the bus or trax at an exact time, be at work at a certain time, see a patient at a specific time, get home to feed and walk the dogs...and so on and so on... but here I wake when the light comes up, we head out to work after we've eaten and checked our email, come home for lunch when we're hungry, and leave work when we're done. All of this being done without any clocks or alarms...just doing what feels natural and right. The only 'clock' in our trailer is that on my computer (and one on the itouch), but other than that we just use the amount of light left in the day to judge things...

Time seems to go by pretty fast when we're working outside or in the greenhouse. It doesn't trudge along like it used to at 'work'...waiting for the hours and minutes to pass so that I could go home... time just flows; we work, we eat, we sleep, (and do other things in-between), but it doesn't feel choppy and disconnected like it was just a mere month ago.

We don't lock our doors. We don't use our turn signal or even wear seatbelts driving in town (cause we're on a dirt road- if we go onto a paved road the seat belts are clicked in place :) ). We cook more and make extremely good meals (when we have the energy). We're very thankful for the mud room. Almost all of our clothes head into the washer caked in dirt and our tan lines are starting to show. We piss each other off daily and have learned that we work and think very differently, (but can work together despite that). We still stare at our computer screens way too much.

We are heading back to SLC in less than 2 weeks for a visit...should be interesting to see how time changes when we leave our country vortex.